# Compiling ruby on AIX 5.3

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/compiling-ruby-on-aix-5-3/57107>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 7, 2006, 8:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/compiling-ruby-on-aix-5-3/57107 "2006-04-07T08:41:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![dasch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@dasch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dasch)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 8:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/compiling-ruby-on-aix-5-3/57107/1 "2006-04-07T08:41:06Z")

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I just recently went through the fun of getting ruby 1.8.4 to compile on  
AIX 5.3, and your error was one of the ones that I struck.

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In summary, to get ruby to compile, I needed to run:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ruby184 --disable-ipv6   
–with-openssl-include=/opt/freeware/include   
–with-openssl-lib=/opt/freeware/lib   
–with-zlib-include=/opt/freeware/include   
–with-zlib-lib=/opt/freeware/lib   
–disable-largefile  
find . -name Makefile -exec perl -pi -e ‘s/ -brtl \*$//’ {} ;  
gmake ruby.imp  
make

Hopefully, something similar will get it to run on AIX 4.3.3.

> I am getting getting errors and compilation faile when I do “make”  
> on AIX 4.3.3 while compiling Ruby 1.8.4
> 
> Did anybody got this error and what needs to be done for  
> this problem.  
> miniruby -g

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